Formerly the Director of Operations of the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2) in Washington, DC, Ria was responsible for managing overall NCET2 operations and executing programs and projects aimed at creating startups from university and federal lab IP. Before joining NCET2, she was a Program Officer at the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines for a European Commission-funded project to create corporate-university-government cooperation programs to increase the Philippines’ human resource capabilities of the Business Process Outsourcing industry. She successfully created training programs to re-tool university faculty to update them on current BPO practices and formed partnerships with BPO companies and universities for manpower development. She was also an Industrial Ecology Project Officer for a United Nations Development Program-funded project under the Philippines' Board of Investments. She worked with global manufacturing corporations and industrial estate managers to implement a new pollution management system within industrial zones.
Listed skills include Training, Program Management, Management, Project Management, and 17 others.